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G R O W I N G ABOUT HALIFAX. 9
AGARICUS Jlipitatus, pjleo tejiaceo, Juceo hit efcent e, Sp: PI:
1641. Hud: Ang: 613. Bat tar,fung, tab. 16, jig. II.
O R A N G E AGARIC.
T A B. , . IX.
r T p H E . r o o t is an obtufe termination of the item"; it is hard,
"X and emits numerous dawny brown fibres; gathering a
portion of mould with it, when; taken up : there is no vifible
volva. '
The item -is hard, crooked, and brittle; "the thicknefs of a
fwan's quill, and two inches high; the fubftance brittle, white
within, and not divifible in fibres; when old becomes fiftular.
There is no curtain.
The gills, thin, narrow, arranged in three feries; the fecond
and third feries irregular in length; they-arc of a brittle fubftance,
and a pale buff colour; when broken a milky fluid
iffues out in drops, of a yellow colour, and of a foft herby
tafte in general; but-in fome a little acrid, efpecially-while
young.-
• The pile'Us a little waved round the rim, and while young
defleded; then becomes horizontal, and at laft umbelicated in
the Centre; but the margin does not rife, fo as to give it a f u n -
nel ihape. The colour of both pileus and item is a fine full
bright orange, ' In decay it turn's brown and diifolves;
Grows in Ramfien, and many other woods about Halifax,
in Odtober. -
It differs from the A. lattijluus, in being of a fcarlet or
orange colour, in bleeding a yellow milk, in being a fmalle'r
plant; and in that it never becomes funnel ihaped.